In 2017, Martha Minow, then dean of Harvard Law School, said that she had “long wondered why we call the enterprise a law school and not a justice school.” It is a distinction well worth pondering. Under our Constitution, judges pursue justice by applying the law without a partisan agenda. Hence the words engraved on the Supreme Court Building in Washington: “Equal Justice Under Law.”Some would rather see the Supreme Court pursue justice in other ways. In “Supreme Inequality,” Adam Cohen frames the court’s duties in terms...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 23, 2020 20:48 UTC